Organic Electronics Materials: New Revenues and New Challenges

While we are waiting for what’s next in organic materials, the organic electronics industry will gradually go through the same chicken and egg process that all new industries go through when dealing with materials suppliers. At first such industries need materials in such small quantities that they are all but laughed at by suppliers and have to make do with materials that are really meant for other applications. Until very recently the photovoltaics industry had to buy the crystalline silicon that the semiconductor industry left over. But now PV has grown and materials firms make silicon to meet the PV industry’s special needs.